Fedora Core 5 on a Dell Latitude C610

General:

This isn't my first installation of FC on this laptop. First, it was FC 4. Most things worked out of the box. There was some trouble with the video card and screen result ion. But those were easy fixes. The suspend function didn't work and I never could get it to work. Recently, I installed FC5. Like FC4, most things worked out of the box. The only things that did not work after the install were the fans, the wireless card and touchpad. The following show how I fixed these issues.

Specifications:

Dell Latitude C610

Pentium IIIm 1000MHz

Intel 2200BG (internal wireless)

**NOTE**

All of the following yum installs were done after I added the Livna repository. If you don't install the Livna repository, yum will say it cannot find any matches. So, here is how you do it.

Wireless

FC5 almost worked out of the box with my wireless card (Intel 2200BG). The only thing I had to do was yum install the firmware. Install then restart. It should work.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install ipw2200-firmware

There is a nice wireless manager for Gnome. It is called Network Manger Dispatcher. It will show you a list of the available wireless networks. It even has a nice panel icon that shows up beside the clock.

Mouse:

My touchpad was having a problem were windows and other things would randomly open and move around. After a little research I found this is a common problem. To fix this install gsynaptics and disable the horizontal/vertical scrolling options.

Fans

I have the most recent BIOS on my laptop from the Dell website (A16). After I installed this BIOS, the fans no longer run (even in Windows XP). So, I installed gkrellm and the Dell i8k plug-in for it. Also, you will probably want to mess with the temperature settings so the fans will turn on when you want them to.